Debt, R&D Investment and Technological Progress: A Panel Study of Japanese Manufacturing Firms in the 90s

Kazuo Ogawa

ISER Discussion Paper from Institute of Social and Economic Research, The University of Osaka

Abstract: Based on a panel data set of Japanese manufacturing firms in research-intensive industries, we investigate quantitatively the extent to which debt outstandings in the 90s affected the firm's R&D activities. We find that massive debt outstandings had significantly negative effect on R&D investment in the 90s. We also find that investment on R&D was closely linked to the firm-level total factor productivity growth in the 90s. In fact, ten-percentage-point increase of debt-asset ratio lowered the firm-level total factor productivity growth rate by 0.72 percentage point for 1999-2001 by way of withering R&D activities, while the firm-level TFP growth rate remains almost intact for 1988-91.

Date: 2004-06
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